Winoka
Encyclopedia
Winoka was a fictional town
in Dakota Territory
, in Michael Landon
's Little House on the Prairie
television program
.
. It has a hotel (where Charles and Caroline work and live with their children), a saloon, a bank, a church and three schools - a public and a private one, plus the special school for blind students. The schools have football
teams and play against each other.
, who went there with Adam Kendall in order to teach in at the new school for the blind
child
ren. The Ingalls are accompanied by their friends, the Garveys, and soon joined accidentally by the Olesons. This is also where Albert Ingalls
appears for the first time, and befriends Laura
and the rest of family.
Life in the crowded, noisy town turns out not to be pleasant for the Ingalls and their friends, so they all decide to move back to Walnut Grove. Mary stays in Winoka and soon marries Adam. After a while, they are forced to leave the town as well, and the school for blind students is moved to Walnut Grove.
Fictional location
Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as backdrop for their fictional works. Fictional locations are also created for use as settings in Role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons...
in Dakota Territory
Dakota Territory
The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.The Dakota Territory consisted of...
, in Michael Landon
Michael Landon
Michael Landon was an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza , Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie , and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven...
's Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show was an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books...
television program
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
.
Depiction
Winoka is much bigger and much older than Walnut GroveWalnut Grove, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 599 people, 291 households, and 178 families residing in the city. The population density was 577.7 people per square mile . There were 341 housing units at an average density of 328.9 per square mile...
. It has a hotel (where Charles and Caroline work and live with their children), a saloon, a bank, a church and three schools - a public and a private one, plus the special school for blind students. The schools have football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
teams and play against each other.
Plot
The Ingalls family moves to Winoka after a dry-spell in Walnut Grove, following MaryMary Ingalls
Mary Amelia Ingalls was born near the town of Pepin, Wisconsin. She was the first child of Caroline and Charles Ingalls...
, who went there with Adam Kendall in order to teach in at the new school for the blind
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
child
Child
Biologically, a child is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. Some vernacular definitions of a child include the fetus, as being an unborn child. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority...
ren. The Ingalls are accompanied by their friends, the Garveys, and soon joined accidentally by the Olesons. This is also where Albert Ingalls
Albert Quinn Ingalls
Albert Quinn Ingalls was a character on the U.S. television series, Little House On The Prairie. The role, which was not historically a part of the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, was played by actor Matthew Laborteaux....
appears for the first time, and befriends Laura
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American author who wrote the Little House series of books based on her childhood in a pioneer family...
and the rest of family.
Life in the crowded, noisy town turns out not to be pleasant for the Ingalls and their friends, so they all decide to move back to Walnut Grove. Mary stays in Winoka and soon marries Adam. After a while, they are forced to leave the town as well, and the school for blind students is moved to Walnut Grove.